Prize Quotes

710 Prize quotes by 586 unique authors

While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth… — Douglass North
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of… — Jose Raul Capablanca
In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even… — Mario Andretti
This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children. — Michele Bachmann
I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We… — Vladimir Putin
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… — Richard Saul Wurman
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back… — Donald Trump
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier… — Terry Rossio
It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son… — Parley P. Pratt
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be… — Samuel Johnson
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar… — George Washington
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want… — Dave Barry
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time… — Rick Strassman
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many… — Christopher A. Sims
In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one. — Hiro Fujiwara
It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina… — Ellen DeGeneres
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be… — Chris Colfer
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home,… — Diane Sawyer
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. — Tina Fey
I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that. — Audrey Hepburn
Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end. — Audrey Hepburn

Who Wrote These Prize Quotes

586 authors contributed a total of 710 Prize Quotes, led by these top contributors: